Buckle.



A. BIENENZUCHT. BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6, 1908.

940,498. Patented Nov. 16, 1909.

' W/ TNESSES N VE N 70/? ATTORNEYS ABRAHAM BIENENZUCHT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 16, 1909.

Application filed November 6, 1908. Serial No. 461,305.

a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved buckle, more especially designed for use on mens trousers belts, and arranged with a particularly shaped hook on the tongue, for engagementwith the fastening device used for closing the flies of the trousers, to hold the belt against upward movement on the trousers.

The invention consists of .novel features and. parts and combinations of the same, which will be-more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical. embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a rear face view of the buckle; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan View of the same on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a cross section of the improvement as applied.

On the buckle frame A is pivoted the tongue-B, provided with an integral hook C adapted to hook onto a but'ton D or other fastening device employed for closing the upper ends of the flies E, E of the trousers. The buckle is attached to one end of the belt F adapted to encircle the trousers at the waist, the free end of the belt being' fastened in place by the buckle in the usual manner.

The hook C is preferably approximately U-shape, having an attaching arm C depending from the tongue B, at a point .between the ends of the tongue, and from the lower end of the arm C extends inwardly and rearwardly the connecting bar C from the free-end of which rises the terminal arm C enlarged atits free end, the connecting bar C and the terminal arm 0 being opposite the space inclosedb the buckle frame. Now by the oblique position of the hook C relatively to the tongue B and frame A, the hook can be readily passed between the flies. E, E and moved upward, to hook onto the shank of the button, as plainly shown in Figs. 1 and 3, so that the buckle is held against further upward or sidewise. movement when the belt is buckled up. The enlarged end of the arm C? prevents the arm from catching in the flies when passed between the same, and when the belt is buckled up the enlarged end of the arm by engag' ing the shank of the button assists in holding the buckle in position. By arranging the hook on the tongue, it is evident that when the belt is buckled up, the tongue B is held closed on the frame A, and hence the hook cannot accidentally slip out of engagement with the button I) or like fastening device.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1-. A buckle provided on its tongue between the ends thereof with a hook rigidly. attached to the tongue, the free end of the hook extending upward.

2. A buckle comprising a buckle frame, a ton ue pivoted thereon, and a hook integral wi ll said tongue and approximately U- shaped and standing obliquely to the tongue.

3. A buckle .comprisinga buckle frame, a tongue pivoted thereon, and ahook integral with said tongue and ap roximately U- shaped and standing oblique y to the tongue, one arm of the hook extending downward from the tongue, the connecting bar of the hook extending inwardly and rearwardly and the other hook arm rlsing from the free end of the connecting bar'.

4. A buckle provided with a hook having an arm rigidly connected with a member of the buckle between the ends of the latter, an inclined connecting bar extending from said arm in direction of one end of the buckle. and a hook arm extending laterally from the end of the connectin ofthe hookarm being enlarged, the connecting bar and said hook arm being at the rear 'of the buckle and opposite thespace incloscd by the buckle frame.

'In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

' ABRAHAM BIENENZUCH'I.

Witnesses:

THEO. Gr. Hos'rnn, Evnnano B. MARSHALL.

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